Senate Behaving Badly: Harry Reid Says 'Sit Down and Shut Up'

How do you quiet down a group of chatty senators who are on the verge of heading home for a monthlong recess?

"Have senators sit down and shut up!" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said to Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., who was presiding over the Senate at the time.

Reid's suggestion came ahead of a cloture vote on a transportation and housing funding bill, which eventually failed. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, prepared to make her case for why senators should move forward with the $54 billion spending bill, but a group of senators were talking loudly.

Reid, who is known to use salty language from time to time, wanted to quiet them down.